| Literature DB >> 22132051 |
Anil Kumar, Vibin Ramakrishnan.
Abstract
Natural proteins are concatenated amino acids with definite handedness or chirality, with their spatial orientation being preferentially left handed or L-chiral. This paper discusses the biophysics of stereo-chemical perturbation to proteins using D-(α) amino acid and its utility as an additional design alphabet while scripting novel protein structures.Entities:
Keywords: Heterochiral proteins; Polypeptide stereochemistry; Protein design; Protein structure energetics
Year: 2011 PMID: 22132051 PMCID: PMC3065589 DOI: 10.1007/s11693-011-9068-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Syst Synth Biol ISSN: 1872-5325